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  • Top 10 vegetables to grow over winter

    According to Top 10 Winter Vegetables | How to Grow | Gardening

    The top 10 are :-

    Broad beans
    Asparagus
    Peas and pea shoots
    Garlic
    Onions, spring onions and shallots
    Winter lettuce
    Lamb's lettuce
    Spinach
    Sugarsnap peas
    Spring cabbage

    How many are you growing? Just curious

    For me, all except Asparagus. Have just added Lamb's lettuce to my sowing list and must resow spinach and some more mixed lettuce.

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    All except for Asparagus and Sugar Snap Peas. I don't like the after effects of Asparagus and nobody else but me eats the SSP's which means I'm not allowed to grow them
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    • #3
      Onions, lettuce and cabbage for me, but surely asparagus is a spring crop. Mine has ferns at the moment but I know it will be dying back to nothing soon. Does it respond to being forced like rhubarb or chicory?

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      • #4
        None - they are either refusing to grow or still waiting to be sown

        Edit: I have a lovely selection of radishes though
        Last edited by Norfolkgrey; 19-10-2015, 07:58 PM.

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        • #5
          I seem to recall asparagus can be forced Wendy...but don't know how
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          • #6
            Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
            How many are you growing? Just curious

            Broad Beans: Aquadulce Claudia and Grano Violetto
            Asparagus: 20116 will be my first year of cropping, should have Asparagus coming out of my ears
            Garlic: Provence Wight
            Spring Onions: will get some going in the greenhouse
            Winter lettuce: would like to, what varieties would you suggest ?

            Will also be forcing some of my Rhubarb, I have my eye on some tall plastic planters to use as forcing jars
            Last edited by RaptorUK; 19-10-2015, 08:05 PM.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by WendyC View Post
              surely asparagus is a spring crop. Mine has ferns at the moment but I know it will be dying back to nothing soon. Does it respond to being forced like rhubarb or chicory?
              From the article
              "Asparagus varieties are now available for autumn planting, which helps them establish that bit quicker.............."

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              • #8
                ^^^ hahaha! The article says grow over winter, but at the end of the asparagus bit says 2 years before it can be cut - that is a ruddy long winter

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                • #9
                  I'm growing:
                  Leeks, PSB, spring cabbage, mizuna, kohl rabi, Chinese celery, winter spinach, lambs lettuce (corn salad), carrots, komatsuna, Christmas potatoes (Charlotte), lettuce winter gem, pea shoots, pak choi, mitsuba mashimori, alfalfa sprouts and various microgreens.
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                  • #10
                    Broad beans - no, spring sowing does better for me
                    Asparagus - no new ones but have a reasonably established bed now
                    Peas and pea shoots - as broad beans, better from spring sowings
                    Garlic - planted already
                    Onions, spring onions and shallots - overwintering onions planted, don't do the others at this time of year
                    Winter lettuce - small plants ready to plant in tunnel when I hoof the toms out
                    Lamb's lettuce - sowed a could of weeks ago
                    Spinach - sowed a couple of weeks ago in the tunnel, coming through nicely now
                    Sugarsnap peas - prefer spring sowing
                    Spring cabbage - planted out, mainly in the tunnel

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                    • #11
                      So far...

                      Garlic
                      Over wintering onions
                      Spring onions
                      Asparagus... Still waiting for decent crop from new plantings

                      To do..
                      Broad beans
                      Lettuce
                      Spinach
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                      • #12
                        Everything apart from broad beans, i cannot stand them and the Spanish love them, giving me massive bags full which i slowly feed to the chickens.
                        They are not so bad cooked but eaten raw from the pod is not so nice, no matter how much beer you wash it down with.
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                        • #13
                          Cabbage, Cauli, Sprouts, Leeks, Onions, Parsnips, Garlic, PSB.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Lisasbolt View Post
                            They are not so bad cooked but eaten raw from the pod is not so nice, no matter how much beer you wash it down with.
                            Never heard of them being eaten raw, they're definitely a cooked veggie to me. I didn't used to be keen as I'd always left them too long on the plant but picked young and small they're lovely and sweet

                            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                            • #15
                              Having my first proper go at broad beans and peas this year. Mostly peas, because those will go down a treat. I've not eaten broad beans, and I know you should eat something before you grow it, but I've found myself with loads of space, so I just want to see how they do, and I can always give them away.

                              I've been given a rhubarb crown, which is going into the ground this weekend. Haven't grown that either. Lot's of firsts for me this year.

                              Spring onions, lettuce, perpetual spinach all under cover. Garlic, will go in on halloween. I've just heard of halloween being a traditional planting date for some people, and I quite like that idea so I'm running with it. I've got therimdour, I think :s

                              Left it too late for spring cabbage sowing in summer, so I may grab some from a nursery, but probably not.

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